Florida SB 640: Purple Alert

Bill Text

640 
Senior Management Service Class 
2025-11-21T03:54:55Z 
Authorizing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to select a specified number of managerial or policymaking positions within the judicial branch for inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class of the Florida Retirement System; requiring the Executive Director and the General Counsel of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission to participate in the Senior Management Service Class, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 640 

 By Senator Rodriguez 

 40-00658A-26 2026640__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Senior Management Service 
 3 Class; amending s. 121.055, F.S.; authorizing the 
 4 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to select a 
 5 specified number of managerial or policymaking 
 6 positions within the judicial branch for inclusion in 
 7 the Senior Management Service Class of the Florida 
 8 Retirement System; requiring the Executive Director 
 9 and the General Counsel of the Florida Judicial 
 10 Qualifications Commission to participate in the Senior 
 11 Management Service Class; providing an effective date. 
 12 
 13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 14 
 15 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subsection (1) of section 
 16 121.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 17 121.055 Senior Management Service Class.—There is hereby 
 18 established a separate class of membership within the Florida 
 19 Retirement System to be known as the “Senior Management Service 
 20 Class,” which shall become effective February 1, 1987. 
 21 (1) 
 22 (h)1.a. Except as provided in subparagraph 3., effective 
 23 January 1, 1994, participation in the Senior Management Service 
 24 Class shall be compulsory for the State Courts Administrator and 
 25 the Deputy State Courts Administrators, the Clerk of the Supreme 
 26 Court, the Marshal of the Supreme Court, the Executive Director 
 27 of the Justice Administrative Commission, the capital collateral 
 28 regional counsel, the clerks of the district courts of appeals, 
 29 the marshals of the district courts of appeals, and the trial 
 30 court administrator and the Chief Deputy Court Administrator in 
 31 each judicial circuit. Effective July 1, 2026, participation in 
 32 the Senior Management Service Class shall be compulsory for up 
 33 to an additional 235 nonjudicial managerial or policymaking 
 34 positions within the judicial branch, as selected by the Chief 
 35 Justice of the Supreme Court. 
 36 b. Effective July 1, 2026, participation in the Senior 
 37 Management Service Class shall be compulsory for the Executive 
 38 Director and the General Counsel of the Florida Judicial 
 39 Qualifications Commission. 
 40 c. Effective January 1, 1994, additional positions in the 
 41 offices of the state attorney and public defender in each 
 42 judicial circuit may be designated for inclusion in the Senior 
 43 Management Service Class of the Florida Retirement System, 
 44 provided that: 
 45 (I)a. Positions to be included in the class shall be 
 46 designated by the state attorney or public defender, as 
 47 appropriate. Notice of intent to designate positions for 
 48 inclusion in the class shall be published for at least 2 
 49 consecutive weeks on a publicly accessible website as provided 
 50 in s. 50.0311 or, if published in print, once a week for 2 
 51 consecutive weeks in a newspaper qualified under chapter 50 in 
 52 the county or counties affected. 
 53 (II)b. One nonelective full-time position may be designated 
 54 for each state attorney and public defender reporting to the 
 55 Department of Management Services; for agencies with 200 or more 
 56 regularly established positions under the state attorney or 
 57 public defender, additional nonelective full-time positions may 
 58 be designated, not to exceed 0.5 percent of the regularly 
 59 established positions within the agency. 
 60 (III)c. Each position added to the class must be a 
 61 managerial or policymaking position filled by an employee who 
 62 serves at the pleasure of the state attorney or public defender 
 63 without civil service protection, and who: 
 64 (A)(I) Heads an organizational unit; or 
 65 (B)(II) Has responsibility to effect or recommend 
 66 personnel, budget, expenditure, or policy decisions in his or 
 67 her areas of responsibility. 
 68 2. Participation in this class shall be compulsory, except 
 69 as provided in subparagraph 3., for any judicial employee who 
 70 holds a position designated for coverage in the Senior 
 71 Management Service Class, and such participation shall continue 
 72 until the employee terminates employment in a covered position. 
 73 Effective January 1, 2001, participation in this class is 
 74 compulsory for assistant state attorneys, assistant statewide 
 75 prosecutors, assistant public defenders, and assistant capital 
 76 collateral regional counsel. Effect